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Technology Stocks : 2000: Y2K Civilized Discussion
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To: Hawkmoon who wrote (489)9/1/1999 1:55:00 PM
From: Christine Traut  Read Replies (1) of 662
 
Ron:

It is true (and, I suppose unfortunate) that Karl Feilder is the CEO of a PC Y2K remediation company called GMT. In fact, his Check 2000 product has been incorporated into Novell's network software. And yes, I know how many people say that 'everyone who is concerned about Y2K is trying to sell you something'. But doesn't it make sense that such people would be closer to Y2K information?

At any rate, Karl Feilder has pretty much devoted his life for the past two years to traveling the world trying to get governments to pay attention to the issue. In my opinion, there is no way that anyone would do that for the money. And he was already doing quite well financially after selling a previous company to Microsoft.

I will never forget Karl's prediction that "Microsoft will just create their own definition of Y2K compliance and then say that they meet it". What can I say, he was totally accurate. And Wall Street and the general public still do not seem to understand that virtually all MSFT operating systems will have to be patched.

As to 'PCs being easy to fix', would that it were true. Every layer has potential problems: BIOS, operating system, applications, data and shared data. Given that most people's MSFT operating systems will need to be patched, and therefore most application developers won't even have time to test their software running on top of these newly-patched MSFT operating systems.....I fail to see that this is an easy problem.

I'm putting Linux and Netscape Navigator on an old PC as insurance that I will be able to continue to post to and read this board after 01/01/00. And I'll bet that even Cheeky considers this strategy sooner or later (in fact, I seem to remember that he is already a Unix head).

Christine
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